[PyQt] Supporting Python 3 (and 2)

Simon Edwards simon at simonzone.com
Tue Nov 10 16:14:11 GMT 2009


Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:46:26 +0100, Simon Edwards <simon at simonzone.com>
> wrote:
>> Phil Thompson wrote:
>>> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:40:31 +0100, Simon Edwards <simon at simonzone.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hello Phil and Friends,
>>>>
>>>> I'm (finally) digging into figuring out what I need to do for PyKDE to 
>>>> support Python 3. There doesn't seem to be much written on the subject,
> 
>>>> but I get the impression still that it is dead simple. It is just a 
>>>> matter of generating the C++ using SIP and compiling the result against
> 
>>>> the Python 3 headers and linking against Python 3's library? And then 
>>>> possibly adding some API annotations to PyKDE to support the newer way 
>>>> of doing things?
>>  > [snip]
>>
>> ok, thanks. But as far as the first step goes, building and compilation, 
>> it is just a case of using Python 3's headers and library?
> 
> Apart from the fact that I think that's one of the last steps - yes.
> 
> SIP's build system will sort it out for you - if you are using it.

I'm invoking sip and g++ etc from cmake. I didn't notice any special 
python 3 flags for sip.



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